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Creates a snapshot of a Simple AD or Microsoft AD directory in the Amazon Web Services cloud.

You cannot take snapshots of AD Connector directories.

post/#X-Amz-Target=DirectoryService_20150416.CreateSnapshot

Headers

X-Amz-Target'DirectoryService_20150416.CreateSnapshot' required

Request body

DirectoryIdstring required

The identifier of the directory of which to take a snapshot.

Namestring

The descriptive name to apply to the snapshot.

Response

Success

SnapshotIdstring

The identifier of the snapshot that was created.